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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- Subject: Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.070755.13175@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:07:55 GMT
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- lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec20.200609.15692@netcom.com>, nagle@netcom.com (John
- >Nagle) wrote:
- >>
- >> It's also worth noting that if you use MacApp, your source code may
- >> be "contaminated" with Apple code, and you may have legal difficulties
- >Can you cite a part of the MacApp license agreement that might lead to
- >problems? I don't know of any clause that would contaminate your source
- >code. While it may say that you cannot port MacApp to another platform,
- >you are always free to take your source code and port that.
-
- The Developer CD Series volume II (which its literature
- says contains sample code) comes with the statement "The Software and Manuals
- contain copyrighted material, trade secrets and other proprietary material
- and in order to protect them you may not decompile, reverse engineer,
- disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Software to a human-perceivable form.
- You may not modify, network, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create
- derivative works based upon the Software in whole or in part..."
- (from paragraph 2, "Restrictions")
-
- Note that this is on a CD that contains sample code which Apple
- encouraged you to copy into your own programs.
-
- I dropped out of Apple's Certified Developer Program in 1990, so
- I'm not up to date on current terms. But at least back then, these
- things came with language sufficiently overreaching that avoiding
- contamination with Apple intellectual property would be difficult.
- This gives Apple some leverage if you later port something that might
- contain some sample code to another platform.
-
- It's scary having sample code around with that kind of restrictive
- language attached. And destroying the CD, as required to terminate the
- agreement under Paragraph 3 of its licence agreement, is a real pain.
- Trying to break a CD in half by hand is dangerous. I finally had to use
- a heavy-duty paper punch.
-
- I think Apple has become more reasonable since 1990, but I haven't
- checked. I don't use MacApp.
-
- John Nagle
-